French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940

The Decline and Fall of a Great Power

Robert Boyce

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134748266
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940 outlines France's strategies for protection and appeasement during this period and places interwar relations in a larger European context.
This book examines:
* relationships with key countries such as Italy and Russia
* the significance of interwar France to 20th Century European integration
* the historical context of the policies
* the setbacks and defeats of the period and how they should be evaluated

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 France at the Paris Peace Conference
• 2 France and the Politics of Steel, from the Treaty of Versailles to the International Steel Entente, 1919–1926
• 3 Raymond Poincaré and the Ruhr Crisis
• 4 Economics and Franco-Belgian Relations in the Inter-War Period
• 5 Reparations and War Debts
• 6 Business as Usual
• 7 René Massigli and Germany, 1919–1938
• 8 Franco-Italian Relations in Flux, 1918–1940
• 9 In Defence of the Maginot Line
• 10 A Douce and Dextrous Persuasion
• 11 Daladier, Bonnet and the Decision-Making Process During the Munich Crisis, 1938
• 12 Intelligence and the End of Appeasement
• 13 France and the Phoney War, 1939–1940